JP3195369U - Tube container squeezer - Google Patents

Abstract

A tube container squeezer that can efficiently take out the fluid content filled in the tube container. SOLUTION: A bottom plate 2, a side wall base 12 comprising a thick wall trunk portion 14 and a thin wall portion 15, and a pair of side walls 3 provided with a top constricted portion 13 are provided, and provided on the bottom plate in a space sandwiched between the side walls. An arch-shaped plate-like support member 4 fixed in the fixing groove and a winding member 9 having a winding shaft 7 are provided. By attaching the proximal end portion of the tube container to the notch 6 of the winding shaft and rotating the handle portion 8 to wind the tube container, the fluid content filled in the container can be efficiently squeezed out. [Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a tube container squeezer used for squeezing the fluid content from a flexible tube container filled with a highly viscous fluid content such as toothpaste.

  Conventionally, there has been proposed an apparatus for squeezing out the fluid content filled in the tube container while winding the tube container around a shaft.

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  However, it has not been said that the conventionally proposed devices are sufficiently equipped with a function for efficiently taking out the fluid contents in the tube container.

  Therefore, a tube container squeezer according to the present invention as a means for solving the above-described problem is a tube container squeezer used for squeezing out the fluid contents while wrapping the tube container in a state of being placed on a table. A pair of side walls standing on the top surface of the bottom plate so as to be parallel to the front-rear direction, and at a position sandwiched between the pair of side walls on the top surface of the bottom plate than the pair of side walls. An arch-shaped plate-shaped support member that is installed so as to be lowered and is formed in a curved plate shape that is convex upward from the front to the rear, and between the apex of the arch-shaped plate-shaped support member and the pair of side walls A cylindrical winding shaft that is horizontally inserted from the front and has a notch from the peripheral surface toward the center of the shaft, and a winding member that includes a handle portion provided at the front end of the winding shaft; A tube container enclosing space which is surrounded by the side walls and formed open at the front and rear ends and the upper end, and the pair of side walls are side wall bases which are formed to be curved inward from each other toward the upper side from the lower end. The upper end constriction formed continuously upward from the side wall base, and the side wall base is continuous from the thick wall main part upward to the thick wall main part having a thick wall at the lower end. A thin wall portion formed with a thin wall thickness, and the upper end constricted portion includes a throttle port portion with which the opposed inner surfaces are closest, and an insertion guide portion that expands from the throttle port portion toward the upper end of the side wall. The upper end constricted portion is formed such that the inner surface and the outer surface of the side wall form a curved surface convex inward, and the throttle port portion is formed thicker from the upper and lower ends of the upper end constricted portion. Shaped support member Part is characterized by comprising fixed by being inserted into the fixing groove provided in the bottom plate upper surface.

  The tube container includes a storage barrel formed in a flexible bag shape using resin or metal, and a discharge port provided in the head of the storage barrel for taking out the fluid contents. It is preferable.

  Examples of the flowable contents packed in the tube container include foods, cosmetics, chemicals, or adhesives made of a highly viscous fluid such as toothpaste, kneaded wasabi, hand cream, or adhesive.

  The shape of the bottom plate is not particularly limited, but is preferably a thin plate shape so as not to make the entire tube container constrictor bulky. Moreover, it is preferable that the bottom plate is formed with a flat portion in which at least a part of the bottom surface is flat, and the bottom plate can be used in a state where the tube container squeezer is placed on a table. As a result, even when the flowable content of the tube container is bulged from the discharge port by a desired amount, the tube container squeezer can be placed on the table with the discharge port of the tube container facing upward. The flowable contents can be used for the target object after freely holding the tube container squeezer.

  The pair of side walls are preferably formed integrally with the bottom plate. This is because a load is applied to the connecting portion between the bottom plate and the side wall by entraining the tube container, so that the durability against the load can be enhanced by forming the tube container integrally. Further, the bottom plate and the pair of side walls are formed of a thermoplastic resin, so that products having the same shape can be efficiently mass-produced.

  The pair of side walls are erected on the bottom plate, are separated from each other above the bottom plate, and each side wall is connected only via the bottom plate.

  The arch-shaped plate-like support member is installed on the upper surface of the bottom plate between the pair of side walls. The arch-shaped plate-shaped support member is formed so that the upper end of the arch portion is positioned lower than the upper ends of the pair of side walls when installed, so that the arch-shaped plate-shaped support member is positioned between the pair of side walls. It is possible to secure a space for inserting the winding shaft into the. The arched plate-like support member is formed into a separate member that can be detached from the bottom plate. Moreover, it is preferable that an arch type plate-shaped support member is shape | molded with a thermoplastic resin.

  It is preferable that the front and rear end portions of the arched plate-like support portion are fixed by being inserted from above into a fixing groove provided on the bottom plate. It is preferable that the front and rear end portions of the arch-shaped plate-like support portion are formed on tongue pieces projecting downward from the front and rear ends of the arch portion. Moreover, it is preferable that a fixing groove is provided with the hollow which can insert the said front-and-rear end part, and the latching | locking part which can latch the said front-and-rear end part from the front-back direction outer side. The fixing groove may be formed with a bottom, but may be formed in a through hole penetrating the bottom plate.

  A notch is formed in the winding shaft provided in the winding member, and the tube container can be fixed to the winding member by inserting the proximal end portion of the tube container opposite to the discharge port into the notch. it can.

  It is preferable that the notch is formed by forming a release end on the rear end surface of the winding shaft. By being formed in this way, the proximal end portion of the tube container can be inserted while sliding forward from the open end of the notch, and is inserted from the peripheral surface of the winding shaft toward the shaft center. The base end portion can be firmly fixed. In addition, the operation | work which inserts the base end part of a tube container from the back of a notch can be made easier by forming the said open end in the shape which expands toward back.

  Moreover, it is preferable that the axial center part of the said winding shaft of a notch is formed with the wide part which is a notch wider in a radial direction than the open end in the peripheral surface of the said notch. The base end portion of the tube container may be welded or the like in order to improve hermeticity, and may be formed thicker than the storage barrel. Even in a tube container having such a thick base end portion, the base end portion of the tube container formed to be thick is introduced into the wide portion, and the storage body portion of the tube container is wound around the winding shaft. By pinching with the said open end part in a surface, the firm fixation with respect to the winding axis | shaft of a tube container is realizable. Furthermore, even when the wide portion is formed, the work of introducing the base end portion of the tube container into the wide portion can be facilitated by forming the rear end surface of the wide portion to be an open end. .

  The handle portion provided at the front end of the winding shaft is preferably formed in a flat plate shape that protrudes in a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft rather than the winding shaft. The handle portion formed in a flat plate shape is preferably formed in a shape in which both end portions in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis are bent to one side. There is an effect that it is easy to apply a force in the axial rotation direction by turning the handle portion while holding the finger on both bent end portions. The handle portion may be preferably formed in a dial shape that is coaxial with the winding shaft. It is preferable that a number of anti-slip grooves, depressions, or protrusions are formed on the outer peripheral surface of the handle portion formed in a dial shape.

  The space sandwiched between the pair of side walls forms a tube container entrainment space in which the tube container entrained by the entrainment shaft is accommodated, and the space is conductive from the front to the rear. In addition, the upper end of the tube container entrainment space is open, and when attaching the entrainment member with the tube container attached to the entrainment shaft, it is inserted from the front of the tube container entrainment space and at the same time, the storage barrel of the tube container Can also be inserted into the aperture part and the insertion guide part from the front. The insertion guide portion has an effect of smoothly winding the tube container into the tube container winding space without catching the upper end edge of the side wall.

  The thick wall main part which comprises the said side wall base part should just be comprised from the outermost surface of a thick wall basic part to the inner surface which forms a tube container entrainment space more thickly than a thin wall part. The thick wall backbone may be filled, for example, with resin or the like, but the inside may be partially formed in a cavity. When a part of the inside of the thick wall trunk is formed into a hollow, it is preferable to have a reinforced structure such that the outer surface and the inner surface are joined by a rib structure. The thick-wall backbone portion maintains the form before and after the tube container is inserted into the throttle port portion, thereby applying pressure in the direction in which the throttle port portion is closed with respect to the throttle port portion in which the tube container is inserted. Can be given. By this effect, it is possible to prevent the squeezing port portion from being unnecessarily expanded and squeeze out so that the fluid content does not remain inside the tube container.

  The thin wall portion is formed to have a wall thickness thinner than that of the thick wall trunk portion, so that the upper end constriction portion formed above the thin wall portion has flexibility in the left-right direction. it can. When inserting the tube container into the throttle port, the throttle port is slightly expanded outward from the thin wall as a base point, so that tube containers having various thicknesses can be inserted into the throttle port. . On the other hand, since the distance between the thin wall portion and the throttle opening is short, the spreading width of the throttle opening can be minimized.

  In addition, when the remaining fluid content is worrisome, the thin wall portion is deformed inward by pressing the outer surface of the upper constricted portion with fingers from the left and right sides, and the throttle port portion can be further closed. . By entraining the tube container in a state where the upper end constricted part is pressed and contracted with the finger, the remaining fluid content can be further suppressed.

  In the case where the thickness of the side wall base is uniform, if the thickness of the side wall base is uniformly increased, the insertion operation becomes difficult because the expansion port does not widen when the tube container is inserted into the expansion port. On the other hand, if the thickness of the side wall base is uniformly reduced, the entire side wall base bends outward when the throttling port widens, so that the throttling port can be greatly expanded and the tube container can be easily moved to the throttling port. Although it can be inserted, when the fluid content is squeezed out, there is a risk that the fluid content will remain in the tube container due to insufficient pressure to close the throttle port.

  If it is a tube container squeezer according to the present invention having a side wall base comprising a thick wall main part and a thin wall part, it is easy to perform the preparation work for inserting the tube container into the squeeze port part, and the residual fluid content Therefore, it is possible to apply a strong pressure to the tube container from the squeeze port portion, and it is possible to improve the efficiency of the preparation work and the amount of contents that can be squeezed out compared to the case where the thickness of the side wall base portion is formed uniformly.

  The upper end constricted part has a curved surface whose inner and outer surfaces of the side wall are convex inward, and the throttle opening is formed thicker from the upper and lower ends of the upper constricted part. Even when the throttle port portion is compressed, the upper constricted portion itself hardly changes in shape, and the pressure applied by the finger to the upper constricted portion can be efficiently applied to the tube container through the throttle port portion.

  As the tube container is wound around the outer periphery of the winding shaft and the outer diameter gradually increases, the upper surface of the arch portion is pressed downward, and the arch-shaped plate-like support member tends to push forward. Here, since the front and rear end portions of the arched plate-like support member are fixed to the bottom plate, the tube container attached to the winding shaft can be wound while being strongly pressed against the inner surface of the side wall.

  Thereby, even if there is the flowable content that has passed through the throttle port, the flowable content that has passed through before being wound on the winding shaft can be pushed out, so the flowable content of the tube container can be more efficiently Can be squeezed out.

  According to the present invention, the flowable contents can be squeezed out in two stages by including a pair of side walls provided with a thick wall trunk portion, a thin wall portion, and a constricted upper end portion, and an arched plate-like support member. Therefore, the fluid content of the tube container can be squeezed more efficiently than before.

  Further, the fluid container that has passed through the throttle port is squeezed out by strongly pressing the tube container caught in the tube entrainment space against the inner surface of the side wall by the arch-shaped plate-like support member fixed to the bottom plate. be able to.

It is a whole perspective view of the tube container expansion device. It is a disassembled perspective view of the tube container expansion device. It is a perspective view which shows the state in the middle of squeezing the tube container. It is a cross-sectional view which shows the state in the middle of squeezing the tube container. It is a longitudinal cross-sectional view of the front-back direction which shows the state in the middle of squeezing the tube container.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view of a tube container squeezer 1 according to the present invention. On the upper surface of the bottom plate 2 of the tube container squeezer 1, the arrow X direction in FIG. 1 is the front direction and the arrow LR direction is the left and right direction. A pair of side walls 3 provided is formed integrally with the bottom plate 2.

  Further, an arch-shaped plate-like support member 4 is installed on the upper surface of the bottom plate 2 at a position sandwiched between the inner surfaces of the pair of side walls 3 so as to be lower than the pair of side walls 3. As shown in the component diagram of FIG. 2, the arched plate-like support member 4 is formed in a curved plate shape that is convex upward from the front to the rear. In the present embodiment, the left and right side edges of the arch-shaped plate-like support member 4 are formed on the reinforcing edges 5 that are slightly thicker than the central portion of the arch-type plate-like support member 4.

  Between the apex of the arch-shaped plate-like support member 4 and the pair of side walls 3, a cylindrical entrainment shaft 7 that is horizontally inserted from the front and has a notch 6 from the peripheral surface toward the axis center. And a winding member 9 comprising a handle portion 8 provided at the front end of the winding shaft 7 is installed.

  A tube container entrainment space 11 for accommodating the tube container 10 entrained by the entraining member 9 is formed in the space surrounded by the pair of side walls 3. The tube container entrainment space 11 is opened at the front and rear ends and the upper end.

  The pair of side walls 3 includes a side wall base portion 12 that is curved inwardly from the lower end toward the upper side and an upper end constricted portion 13 that is continuously formed upward from the side wall base portion 12.

  The side wall base 12 includes a thick wall trunk 14 having a thick wall at the lower end, and a thin wall 15 having a thin wall continuously formed upward from the thick wall trunk 14.

  The upper-end constricted portion 13 includes a throttle port portion 16 whose inner surfaces facing each other are closest to each other, and an insertion guide portion 17 that expands from the throttle port portion 16 toward the upper end of the side wall. The upper end constricted portion 13 has a curved surface in which the inner and outer surfaces of the side wall are convex inwardly, and the aperture 16 is formed thicker than the upper and lower ends of the upper constricted portion 13.

  The tongue piece 18 provided so as to protrude downward at the front and rear ends of the arch-shaped plate-like support member 4 is fixed by being inserted into a fixing groove 19 provided on the upper surface of the bottom plate.

  In the present embodiment, the bottom plate 2 is formed in a thin plate shape whose outer shape is rectangular when viewed from the bottom surface, and leg portions 20 having a flat bottom surface are formed on both right and left right edges. Therefore, the tube container squeezer 1 can be used in a state where it is placed on the table by grounding the leg 20 on the table.

  The fixing groove 19 is formed by a through hole 21 elongated in the left-right direction formed through the bottom plate 2 and a rod-shaped locking piece 22 having a long axis in the front-rear direction formed adjacent to the outside of the through hole 21. Formed. In addition, it may replace with the two rod-shaped locking pieces 22 and may be a flat-plate-shaped locking piece. When the tongue piece 18 is inserted into the through hole 21, the arch-shaped plate-like support member 5 is fixed to the bottom plate 2, and the tongue piece 18 that pushes forward and backward during use of the tube reducer 1 is locked in a bar shape. It can be locked by the piece 22. Two rod-like locking pieces 22 are provided in parallel near the center of the through hole 21.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the winding shaft 7 provided in the winding member 9 is formed with a cut 6, and the tube container is inserted into the winding member 9 by inserting the base end portion 23 of the tube container into the cut 6. 10 can be fixed.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the notch 6 forms a release end on the rear end surface of the winding shaft 7. By being formed in this way, the base end portion 23 of the tube container can be inserted while sliding forward from the open end of the notch 6, and from the peripheral surface of the winding shaft 7 toward the shaft center. The base end portion 23 can be fixed more firmly than when inserted. In the present embodiment, the open end of the notch 6 is formed in the insertion port 24 that expands toward the rear, thereby further inserting the base end portion 23 of the tube container from the rear of the notch 6. Can be easily.

  In addition, a wide portion 25 is formed in the axial center portion of the winding shaft 7 of the cut 6, which is a cut wider in the radial direction than the open end on the peripheral surface of the cut 6. The rear end surface of the wide portion 25 is formed to be a release end similarly to the rear end surface of the cut 6. Thereby, the operation | work which introduce | transduces the base end part 23 of a tube container into the said wide part 25 can be made easy. Since the axial center portion of the notch 6 is formed in the wide portion 25, the base end portion 23 of the tube container 10 is welded or the like to increase the sealing property as shown in the sectional view of FIG. Even if it is formed, it can be inserted with a margin.

  The handle portion 8 provided at the front end of the winding shaft 7 is formed in a flat plate shape that protrudes in a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft with respect to the winding shaft 7. Further, the handle portion 8 is formed in a shape in which both end portions 26 and 26 in the direction perpendicular to the rotation axis are bent to one side surface side. There is an effect that it is easy to apply a force in the axial rotation direction by turning the handle portion 8 while holding a finger on the bent both end portions 26 and 26.

  The space sandwiched between the side walls 3 forms a tube container entrainment space 11, and the space is conducted from the front to the rear. Further, the upper end of the tube container entraining space 11 is released as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, and when the entraining member 9 having the tube container 10 attached to the entraining shaft 7 is attached, the tube container entraining space 11. At the same time as inserting the winding member 9 from the front, the storage barrel 27 of the tube container 10 can also be inserted into the throttle port 16 and the insertion guide 17 from the front. The insertion guide portion 17 has an effect of smoothly winding the tube container 10 into the tube container winding space 11 without being caught on the upper end edge of the side wall 3.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the thick wall trunk portion 14 constituting the side wall base portion 12 is configured such that the thickness from the outer surface to the inner surface is larger than that of the thin wall portion 15. According to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, a part of the inside of the thick wall trunk portion 14 is formed into a cavity, and the outer surface and the inner surface of the thick wall trunk portion 14 are joined by the rib 28. Become. By having the rib 28, the thick wall trunk portion 14 can maintain the form even before and after the tube container 10 is inserted into the throttle port portion 16. Thereby, pressure can be applied to the throttle port 16 in a state where the tube container 10 is inserted in a direction in which the throttle port 16 is closed. By this effect, it is possible to prevent the throttle port portion 16 from being unnecessarily widened and to squeeze the fluid content so that it does not remain inside the tube container 10.

  The thin wall portion 15 is formed to have a wall thickness thinner than that of the thick wall trunk portion 14, thereby providing flexibility in the left-right direction with respect to the upper end constricted portion 13 formed above the thin wall portion 15. Can be provided. When the tube container 10 is inserted into the throttle port portion 16, the throttle port portion 16 is slightly pushed outward with the thin wall portion 15 as a base point, and therefore the tube container 10 having various thicknesses is inserted into the throttle port portion 16. Can be inserted. On the other hand, since the distance between the thin wall portion 15 and the aperture portion 16 is short, the spreading width of the aperture portion 16 can be minimized.

  Further, when the fluid content in the tube container 10 remains, the thin wall portion 15 is deformed inward by pressing the outer surface of the upper constricted portion 13 from both the left and right sides with fingers, and the throttle port 16 Can be more occluded. By entraining the tube container 10 in a state where the upper end constricted portion 13 is pressed and contracted with a finger, the remaining fluid content can be further suppressed.

  The tube container squeezer 1 according to the present invention is easy to prepare for inserting the tube container 10 into the squeeze port 16, and applies a strong pressure from the squeeze port 16 to the tube container 10 in order to suppress the remaining fluid content. It is possible to improve the efficiency of the preparation work and the amount of contents that can be squeezed out, compared with the case where the thickness of the side wall base is uniform.

  The upper end constricted portion 13 has a curved surface in which the inner surface and the outer surface of the side wall 3 are convex inward, and the aperture 16 is formed thicker than the upper and lower ends of the upper constricted portion 13. Even when the narrowing portion 16 is pushed and contracted by pinching the portion 13, the upper neck portion 13 itself hardly changes its shape, and the tube container can efficiently apply the pressure applied by the finger to the upper neck portion 13 through the narrowing portion 16. 10 can be given.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the arch-shaped plate-like support member 4 is pushed in the front-rear direction by pressing the upper surface of the arch portion downward as the tube container 10 is wound around the outer periphery of the winding shaft 7 and the outer diameter gradually increases. Try to spread. Here, since the tongue piece 18 provided on the arch-shaped plate-like support member 4 is inserted into the fixing groove 19 and fixed, the tube container 10 attached to the winding shaft 7 is wound while strongly pressing the inner surface of the side wall. be able to.

  Thereby, even if there is a flowable content that has passed through the throttle port portion 16, the flowable content that has passed therethrough can be pushed out before being wound on the winding shaft 7, so that the flowability of the tube container 10 can be improved more efficiently. The contents can be squeezed out.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Tube constrictor 2 Bottom plate 3 Side wall 4 Arch type plate-shaped support member 6 Notch 7 Retraction shaft 8 Handle part 9 Retraction member 10 Tube container 12 Side wall base 13 Upper end constriction part 14 Thick wall trunk 15 Thin wall part 16 Restriction part 17 Insertion guide part 18 Tongue piece 19 Fixed groove 20 Leg part 21 Through-hole 22 Rod-like locking piece 23 Base end part 24 Wide part 26, 26 Both ends

Claims (1)

A tube container squeezer used to squeeze out the fluid content while winding the tube container in a state of being provided with a bottom plate and placed on a table,
A pair of side walls standing on the top surface of the bottom plate so as to be parallel to the front-rear direction;
An arch-shaped plate-like support member that is installed at a position sandwiched between the pair of side walls on the upper surface of the bottom plate so as to be lower than the pair of side walls, and is formed in a curved plate shape that protrudes upward from the front to the rear. When,
A cylindrical winding shaft that is horizontally inserted from the front between the apex of the arch-shaped plate-like support member and the pair of side walls and has a notch from the peripheral surface toward the center of the shaft, and the winding shaft A winding member comprising a handle portion provided at the front end;
A tube container enclosing space surrounded by the pair of side walls and formed open at the front and rear ends and the upper end;
The pair of side walls includes a side wall base portion that is curved inward from each other as it goes upward from the lower end, and an upper end constriction portion that is continuously formed upward from the side wall base portion,
The side wall base portion is composed of a thick wall trunk portion having a thick wall thickness at the lower end portion and a thin wall portion formed with a thin wall thickness continuously upward from the thick wall trunk portion.
The upper end constricted portion is composed of a throttle port portion where the opposed inner surfaces are closest, and an insertion guide portion that expands from the throttle port portion toward the upper end of the side wall,
The upper end constricted portion is formed such that the inner surface and the outer surface of the side wall form a curved surface convex inward, and the throttle port portion is formed thicker than the upper and lower ends of the upper end constricted portion,
The arch-shaped plate-like support member is fixed by inserting front and rear end portions into a fixing groove provided on the upper surface of the bottom plate.

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